Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 403 439 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.79% 11.95% 16.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.56% 39.51% 48.53%
Number of salaries quoted 306 309 271
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,186 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £78,150 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,201 1,111 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.16% 30.23% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 619 614 551
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,375 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -5 115 £55,000 +10.00% 109
Cambridgeshire +12 98 £40,000 -15.79% 86
Essex -4 75 £32,500 -36.27% 103
Bedfordshire +6 54 £30,750 -38.50% 56
Suffolk +9 40 £47,500 +43.94% 36
Norfolk -12 17 £70,000 +118.75% 35
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 18
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 50 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (9.18%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.48%) Confluence
4 6 (1.49%) WordPress
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Apache
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (36.97%) Microsoft 365
2 89 (22.08%) Power Platform
3 77 (19.11%) Entra ID
4 73 (18.11%) AWS
5 29 (7.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 27 (6.70%) PowerApps
7 23 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.96%) Azure AI
8 20 (4.96%) SaaS
9 19 (4.71%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.22%) Snowflake
11 16 (3.97%) GitHub
12 13 (3.23%) OneDrive
13 12 (2.98%) GCP
14 11 (2.73%) IaaS
14 11 (2.73%) Serverless
15 10 (2.48%) PaaS
16 6 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.49%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 75 (18.61%) Firewall
2 37 (9.18%) DHCP
3 36 (8.93%) DNS
4 30 (7.44%) VPN
5 28 (6.95%) WAN
6 27 (6.70%) TCP/IP
7 21 (5.21%) Internet
7 21 (5.21%) LAN
8 19 (4.71%) Wireless
9 14 (3.47%) SAN
9 14 (3.47%) VLAN
10 12 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (2.73%) WLAN
12 7 (1.74%) IP Telephony
13 6 (1.49%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
15 3 (0.74%) Network Security
15 3 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.74%) VoIP
16 2 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.64%) Power BI
2 41 (10.17%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.46%) Tableau
4 15 (3.72%) MySQL
5 13 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.49%) Redis
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.24%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (1.24%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.50%) Big Data
11 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (5.96%) Git
2 13 (3.23%) JIRA
3 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) MSTest
4 2 (0.50%) NUnit
4 2 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.50%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.41%) Finance
3 17 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (4.22%) Law
4 15 (3.72%) Retail
5 12 (2.98%) Automotive
5 12 (2.98%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.73%) Multimedia
7 9 (2.23%) Legal
8 8 (1.99%) Publishing
9 7 (1.74%) Back Office
10 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.99%) Marketing
11 4 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.50%) Advertising
13 2 (0.50%) Games
13 2 (0.50%) Local Government
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (21.59%) Analyst
2 58 (14.39%) IT Support
3 46 (11.41%) Junior
4 45 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 42 (10.42%) Developer
6 40 (9.93%) Junior Analyst
7 38 (9.43%) Senior
8 36 (8.93%) Support Analyst
9 31 (7.69%) Architect
9 31 (7.69%) IT Engineer
9 31 (7.69%) Support Engineer
10 27 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 23 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (4.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 20 (4.96%) Data Analyst
12 20 (4.96%) Junior Data Analyst
12 20 (4.96%) Junior Security Analyst
12 20 (4.96%) Security Analyst
13 19 (4.71%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.93%) .NET
2 24 (5.96%) CSS
3 18 (4.47%) React
4 13 (3.23%) HTML
4 13 (3.23%) jQuery
5 11 (2.73%) Vue
6 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
6 9 (2.23%) Web Services
7 7 (1.74%) YAML
8 6 (1.49%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.49%) REST
9 5 (1.24%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.99%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.99%) Node.js
10 4 (0.99%) SignalR
11 3 (0.74%) Kafka
11 3 (0.74%) Playwright
12 2 (0.50%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.72%) Data Centre
2 13 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.73%) IoT
5 9 (2.23%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.23%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.24%) Clustering
9 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.99%) iPad
10 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.74%) PKI
11 3 (0.74%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.50%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 153 (37.97%) Windows
2 116 (28.78%) Windows Server
3 35 (8.68%) Windows 10
4 30 (7.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (5.21%) Mac OS
6 19 (4.71%) Linux
7 15 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (2.73%) Android
9 8 (1.99%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.50%) Unix
10 2 (0.50%) VMS
11 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.25%) SUSE
11 1 (0.25%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (18.11%) Customer Service
3 69 (17.12%) ITIL
4 68 (16.87%) Agile
5 64 (15.88%) Business Intelligence
6 53 (13.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
8 50 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (12.16%) Mentoring
10 44 (10.92%) DevOps
11 43 (10.67%) Analytics
12 39 (9.68%) AI
13 38 (9.43%) CI/CD
14 37 (9.18%) Roadmaps
14 37 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (8.44%) Service Delivery
16 29 (7.20%) Process Improvement
16 29 (7.20%) Technology Roadmap
17 24 (5.96%) Scrum
18 23 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.14%) PowerShell
2 58 (14.39%) SQL
3 56 (13.90%) Python
4 47 (11.66%) C#
5 30 (7.44%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.71%) PHP
7 14 (3.47%) Java
8 11 (2.73%) C++
9 8 (1.99%) R
10 7 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.49%) Bash
11 6 (1.49%) VBScript
12 3 (0.74%) Bicep
12 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (18.61%) Azure Certification
2 61 (15.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 38 (9.43%) Degree
4 30 (7.44%) DBS Check
5 26 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 23 (5.71%) AWS Certification
7 21 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (4.96%) CompTIA CySA+
9 19 (4.71%) Security Cleared
10 17 (4.22%) CCNA
10 17 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (3.72%) SC Cleared
12 13 (3.23%) A+ Certification
12 13 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 8 (1.99%) MCP
15 8 (1.99%) MCSA
16 7 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.73%) Accessibility
1 11 (2.73%) GDPR
2 8 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.99%) QA
5 3 (0.74%) NIST
5 3 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.50%) GxP
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 124 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.96%) Hyper-V
3 23 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (4.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (3.97%) Docker
6 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.99%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (17.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.47%) SCCM
3 13 (3.23%) Terraform
4 10 (2.48%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.24%) Ansible
6 4 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.74%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.50%) PaperCut
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 262 (65.01%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.93%) VMware
3 20 (4.96%) ForeScout
4 18 (4.47%) Cisco
5 14 (3.47%) Fortinet
6 13 (3.23%) Apple
6 13 (3.23%) SAP
6 13 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.98%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (2.23%) Atlassian
9 9 (2.23%) DevExpress
9 9 (2.23%) HP
9 9 (2.23%) Veeam
10 8 (1.99%) Workday
11 7 (1.74%) Aruba
11 7 (1.74%) Google
11 7 (1.74%) Oracle
11 7 (1.74%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.49%) Remedy